To the city of Halifax and the majority of the people in it! Get with the fucking times! We are so behind in everything it is ridiculous! Stop trying to live in the past and start updating the god for saken city! All the fucking old geezers out there!? Suck it up and fucking let us change! Fuck, Halifax wants to be the next Toronto?? Uh… it ain’t gonna be happening any time soon if this keeps on going. I so tired living in a city that is not progressing and its pretty much impossible to find a decent job here. Let me recap on why i think this stupid fucking city is so fucking lame! We only got Sunday shopping how many years ago now? Like 2 or 3 or something? Umm… pretty sure everywhere else had it for like a decade or so now! We are just putting natural gas lines in around the city now? Umm again… pretty sure other provinces are ahead of us on that one as well. Our fashion is lame, our laws are lame, yup… this city is definately lame.
This article appears in Jun 5-11, 2008.
Kay, have you seen the movie “Once”? Totally off topic, but i just saw it and i think you’re a big music fan. It’s effing awesome. Go see it right this second.
Awesome, another one. Keep it up.
Awesome, another one. *Yawn*
Awesome, another one. *Buuuuurp*PS Alberta doesn’t even have curbside recycling or composting yet, and they didn’t ban smoking in public places until less than a year ago, and they still sell cigarettes in drugstores. Halifax is so progressive it’s scary.
And let’s not forget how backward Halifax is in comparison to Toronto, where they don’t even recycle plastic bags, have no apartment composting, and are just now fighting about bag free stores. Or how Ontario does not have a bicycle helmet law, a no-cell phones while driving law or smoking with kids in the car…although they seem to be pretty happy to debate it endlessly. Or how Nova Scotia has one of the only tidal power generators in the world and is a testing ground for several more prototypes. Or how wind power in Nova Sctotia is growing rapidly. Good thing we hate change so much, and are always the last to do anything useful, especially when it comes to social issues or the environment. And most of these bitches are centered around things halifax cannot control…like its location and population. Our fashion sucks because we have less selection, because we don’t have the population to support more specialty stores. But then again, I guess this will never change either, since 5-10 years ago this city was already flooded with lululemon, Mexx, Old Navy, american apparel etc etc,….yup, nothing like the status quo…..good thing nothing ever changes around here.
Not to mention the fact that society is in the very early stages of turning its back on the rampant consumption and cosumerism that has been devouring our souls for quite some time – it may turn out very soon that our “No Sunday Shooping” bylaws were, in fact, years ahead of their time, rather than behind. Just a thought.
I said Sunday Shooping. I meant Sunday shopping. I maintain that Sunday shooping should remain outlawed. Shooping should be reserved for Friday afternoon sock hops in the school gym.
And Salt n’ Peppa videos.
The OP is bang on about halifax being far behind in the times, that is because there is no money. at all. I work as a tech with a reputable comms company and I started at $14/hour, what a joke, working as a warehouse guy at walmart in edmonton makes 18 minimum and dont say the cost of living is more expensive because with the exception of insurance,it is the very same, i’ve lived there for 2 years the east just doesnt have any major things going on to have any economy, unless you want to work on the greasy docks or somthing I guess. yeah other provinces have had natural gas for a while longer and thats cool, but I rent so that doesnt apply to me, neither does the fashion thing, I don’t care about being an individual like you hippies nor do I have the sewing skills to put a bunch of random ass patches and shit (wtf is that about anyways) all over my clothes, I just wear what is comfortable, and why do all you hippies hate lulu lemon so much FUCKING WHY!>!!?!?! theres no reason. Sunday shopping is awesome because I can buy stuff when I want to, plain and simple, why would anyone not want sunday shopping? because it’s jesus day? because “everyone deserves a day off” if some employee at walmart or somthing doesnt like working on sundays fucking quit, work somewhere else i work 9-5 mon-fri try it out. Qwerty, why are you so passionate about curbside composting? those green bins are the most fucking gross stinky annoying thing ever, composting is fucking gross no one wants to do that shit. As for laws, the no cell phone law is terrible, the retarded drivers (90% of all drivers) made it illegal for me to use my phone while driving, a lot of other provinces will never do that. The one thing that halifax/maritimes seem to be doing well is banning those poor ass squegee kids and bums from bothering me, that is the best law ever, a close 2nd being the banning of skateboarders in NB, get off the sidewalk you little criminals.
Hey qwerty, “Not to mention the fact that society is in the very early stages of turning its back on the rampant consumption and cosumerism that has been devouring our souls for quite some time”that is a fact is it?Do you also think THE EVIL GOVERNMENT is after you?
????Weirdo.
I think NS is getting the short end of the stick in many areas. Residents consistently pay some of the highest prices for fuel in the entire country while driving on the poorest roads. To buy regular fresh veggies you must pay premium prices at specialty stores and everything costs more than in ON on a consumer level (except insurance). Paying toll on roads and bridges, as if that’s a Canadian way of doing things… there are shopping carts everywhere, people who live in them picking through your garbage, scary slum neighborhoods with an alarming number serious crimes, murders and missing people filling the evening news stories as if we’re vancouver. Racism like I’ve never seen, reverse-racism and the number of working poor is outrageous given the small population. I’m blown away by the amount of garbage and appliances a household is allowed to put out and the idea of bi-weekly collection of the really bad stuff leaves me wondering. Why are municipal dollars being spent taking your broken dishwasher to the dump? Sunday shopping, afraid to say, removes a person’s ability to take a day off. Period. Yes, yes, a person can chose to quit a job in favor of observing a Sunday religious ritual but because we need our jobs (duh!) of course we’ll go to work. On the other hand why should the government prevent me from earning money on a Sunday. Tough issue. Did the majority want that or just the well connected whining elites? I’m not sure, are you?Ah man, this thread really got me going. Sorry about that.
Well guess what, halifax hates you back. We who like it here like it maybe because its not so ahead, save us the trouble with having to deal with assholes like you and move to Toronto and have fun breathing the smog,
HALIFAX HATES YOUhttp://picnicface.com/videos.php?videoID=33
qwerty, I’m about 50 minutes into this movie, Once, and I’m not sure I can take anymore. There must be some profound ending for you to make such a recommendation. Either that or you dislike me a lot. My faith in people says you genuinely liked this movie so I’ll try and get through the rest of it.From the first scene I was reminded of a guy who showed up early for jam night with his acoustic guitar (Our Friends Pub about 3 weeks ago). As the band set up he played softly right up to the chorus when he pulled out this monster voice scaring the shit out of the whole bar, band included. And he did this with every dam song. So, at first, I thought our lead character was the SAME GUY in serious need of some mic control! HahaWhat’s really done it for me, like, audible groan sort of done-it, is when the unlikely couple step into the bank with a (really bad) demo tape and because this young, rose-selling, single mother “is satisfied a better quality recording…” would be marketable they walk out with a loan. Sorry. Didn’t happen nowhere no how and if there are loans officers/banks like that out there I’d drop everything and move to Dublin just to get some financial backing from a bank.I’ll try and get through the rest. So far I’m finding some good songs coming through very poor production and mediocre performances.If you liked this sort of story-telling folk music you have to hear this indie band from ON called Clem & Clem. No issue is untouched by these sarcastic pricks. Music quality is very good but shock value is better. Check ’em out:http://www.soundclick.com/clemandclem
But the MUSIC, kay!!! I love it!
The thing at the bank was a leap for me too. What rescued it for me, though, was that in real life, their music actually DID win an academy award, and has a very loyal following… if it was some cheesy crap music i would have rolled my eyes too.
I totally appreciate a good listener and a good ear for music. Here’s the thing, though. I’ve been working with very talented artists with a great deal more going for them in terms of songwriting, talent, exposure and experience; still, without the ability to walk into a bank and walk out with funding, it’s a crap life in a very hard business and that’s AFTER production. I’d like to tell you more via not-so-public means. Interested? How can we chat in private?
Obviously this was a way over-simplified thing.If the movie wanted to take the time to explain the ins and outs of securing financing to produce a record, it would have been a very different movie. Instead, it took some liberties in order to capture the whimsy and spontenaiety (sp? no idea.) of a special turning point in two people’s lives.
I’ll watch the rest of the movie today before I comment further but definitely listen to the Clem & Clem. I know you’ll like it because you’re just as sarcastic I am and they’ve got us both beat. haha
I’ll fer sure check that out